The net is closing on a pair of black-clad burglars rumbled by a five-year-old boy who was able to draw pictures of them for a wanted poster.

Police in the town of Netphen, North Rhine-Westphalia, released the unusual photofit after the culprits had broken into a family home on Friday evening, stealing only a few euros and an iPhone, but causing substantial damage.

The burglars were shocked to discover the boy, and his three-year-old brother, apparently home alone, and left without harming them. Their mother had been in the garden collecting washing from the line.

Arriving back here after problems with the laptop, I alighted on this thread. My initial reaction was , but I keep going back to the fact that this government is spending millions of taxpayers' money on an investigation that so far seems to have thrown up absolutely nothing that the PJ already logged years ago

jejune wrote:Arriving back here after problems with the laptop, I alighted on this thread. My initial reaction was , but I keep going back to the fact that this government is spending millions of taxpayers' money on an investigation that so far seems to have thrown up absolutely nothing that the PJ already logged years ago

And with the Portuguese Police files having been released and readily available to the world (notwithstanding the reluctance of the U.K. press to report same) millions of people throughout the world are left wondering why the British taxpayers are not questioning why THEY are subsidizing this furthur "investigation".

jejune wrote:Arriving back here after problems with the laptop, I alighted on this thread. My initial reaction was , but I keep going back to the fact that this government is spending millions of taxpayers' money on an investigation that so far seems to have thrown up absolutely nothing that the PJ already logged years ago

And with the Portuguese Police files having been released and readily available to the world (notwithstanding the reluctance of the U.K. press to report same) millions of people throughout the world are left wondering why the British taxpayers are not questioning why THEY are subsidizing this furthur "investigation".

Hi interested, I remember Gordon Brown saying that the release of information into the public domain regarding Madeleine's disappearance might compromise National security. ?(Capabilities of US Spy Satellites overflying Portugal)?